“ How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God’s will and another is just cultural differences? What if it’s all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for… Trevor D. Richardson
“ A litany of headlights blinding her, she stands unsteady on the dotted traffic line, takes timid steps toward rolled up windows behind which any horror could crouch.... Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez
“ Angels should never be exposed to the dire darkness of despair in the tunnel of cosmic nothingness, and although I never believed such maddening thoughts; I couldn't help but feel spiritual in her pre… Bruce Crown
“ In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men. Alex Scarrow
“ The idea in our culture of body solely as sculpture is wrong. Body is not marble. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to protect, contain, support and fire the spirit and soul within it, to be a r… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming? C.C. Hunter
“ Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy f Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
“ Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to revitalize tribal leaders and conservative practices as a means of stabilizing stat… Nadje Al-Ali
“ Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social in… Nadje Al-Ali
“ She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden. Margaret Way
“ A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom… H.L. Mencken
“ Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want. Shahla Khan
“ The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women — of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the… Rebecca Solnit
“ A woman can never be late when she is meeting with a man. But a man can most certainly be late when he is meeting with a woman. S.A. Tawks
“ Within forty minutes, the voice inside my head was screaming, WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO? I tried to ignore it, to hum as I hiked, though humming proved too difficult to do while also panting and… Cheryl Strayed
“ When you can find your own axis, you can revolve around it, for when you revolve your life on someone outside of you, you lose your own alignment. Just as the earth revolves around its own axis daily… Malti Bhojwani
“ He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn. Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos
“ No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, ’Unwrap me, darling. James Lusarde
